tractman

Here is the link that will take you to the B-J Auction Block last Saturday night for the 1.1M dollar sale of the first C7 Corvette to Rick Hendrick. The photos are awesome and there's also the interview with Hendrick.

https://theblock.com/news/rick-hendr...vette-stingray

BWF07

Thanks for posting. I just cannot see how you can pay that kind of money just the have #0001. But I guess if you have that kind of money it is no bug deal.

Dave_2003_TRZ06

^^^Rick Hendrick has 1.1m between the couch cushions on his Gulf Stream G650

Stingray23

nice pics!

MikeG37

Just pocket change, in a relative manner of speaking.. uh spending

Zap City

I actually prefer the Owens Corning 69 BB racer he bought after that one for a mill also.

Chevy Performance

In his interview he stated he has ZR1 SN0001. So I guess there are three ZR1 SN0001's out there. Jay Leno, Rick Hendrick, and the guy that purchased SN0001 at Barrett Jackson. Kind of kills the value of SN0001 it seems.

su8pack1

binster

Easy.. Just need to sell the first 100 vettes with a $10k market adjustment on them.

peter pan

Awesome that he is a true Chevy guy even when it is Govt owned

BWF07

Well I would say that 2 of the three are not being truthful, as we all know, there is only one car that comes off the line with a VIN of 0001. I don't remember the auction for the first ZR1, but even if Rick did not buy it then and he claims to have it now, I would venture to say he bought it from the original owner. He did buy the first 427 convertible anniversary car last year.

While on the Barret-Jackson auction subject, I have always wondered just how up and up it truly is. I mean the C7 went for a cool $1,050,000.00, yet we never saw any other bidders except Rick. sitting on the other side of Jeff Gordon was Ron Pratt and he is one of the top bidders at that event and he was not in the bidding, so were was the other bidders. normally they move from bid taker to bid taker. I have always said that Barrett-Jackson is simply stupid money. Some people pay a lot more money for some of the cars then they are most likely worth, I think they just get caught up in all the hype.

hey32g

My thoughts EXACTLY!

The bidding went straight up to $1 Million and then suddenly stopped and sold for just $50k over that. I'm sure buried back in some agreement with Chevy there's a clause that gives him the car. I'm calling BS on the whole thing.

Who knows nowadays, I'm sure somehow we the taxpayers bought the damn thing for him.

I had actually intended to start on thread on this very subject. Really wish there was still such a thing as investigative journalism. No telling what they could dig up on this deal.

I'm a little sick of the good ol' boys taking care of each other at the expense of everyone else.

billythekid310

I also thought it was cool that ole Ricky bought W's Ford F-150 for the charity. Slick Rick.

DRLC5

Well the money did go to charity. I also wonder what color combo he will order? Also Pratte was selling 5 of his collection maybe he is hurting for money..lol.

BWF07

Starting at 1 pm today on the Vorticity channel is the Mehum auction from Kissimmee. It will be interesting to watch some of the Corvette's there and what they sell for.

USAFPILOT

Looks like Jeff Gordon likes it.